The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz

Re:The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz by Anechoic on Friday February 15, 2013 @11:58PM (#5230457)

That research work led to his position as Harvard Fellow continuing that specific work of analyzing large journal datasets to find corruption. That is why he downloaded the journals - to continue his research into analyzing large datasets to find connections that indicate corruption.

Then why not download the articles from his Harvard account?

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Re:The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz by cma on Saturday February 16, 2013 @01:03AM (#5230586)

He was legally in the right on PACER and got ridiculously harassed over it. Why wouldn't he want to hide his identity when doing it again on JSTOR (where he was still legally in the right).

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Re:The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz by Anechoic on Saturday February 16, 2013 @02:00AM (#5230707)

We're talking about Harvard. Home of the Berkman Center and a shitload of politically connected lawyers. I'm sure he cold have coordinated with counsel to make sure he was protected.

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